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anyone remember the local shops from years ago ... u no the cheap stuff bit like happy shopper stuff i can still remember the my mum range of products and in the 70s there was a cheap brand called bob ...and while im talkin about the 70s anyone remember hillards at lane top:)

I don't remember BOB.

In Skegness you can still get HAppy Shopper stuff.

Haven't seen 'My mum's' for years, but it was SO entertaining - a little comment on each product.
My favourite was......

My Mums Lemonade... fizzes up your nose'

How delightful.

:D

Yeah, Hillards! Great fun! I remember the good old bad days when the 75 /76 bus route changed, and instead of terminating at the supermarket, it continued all the way down Barnsley Road without stopping :rolleyes:

Of course, the really good part was getting off the bus with six or seven bags, then walking up a steep hill back home :thumbsup:

Originally posted by hiyabeing
Haven't seen 'My mum's' for years, but it was SO entertaining - a little comment on each product.
My favourite was......

My Mums Lemonade... fizzes up your nose'

Indeed. This was the most entertaining thing about my student years in Coventry :D

My personal favourite was on packets of fish fingers:

"Ready, breaded, go!"

And it would then claim that the comment had been sent in by some 7 year old kid. Yeah, right.

I've still seen Happy Shopper things in local shops recently. I've can't recall seeing My Mums brand for a very long time though.

wen i was about 9 i rember my mum takin me to eucomarket in eccelsfield think its a co op now
oh those where the days:thumbsup:

Yes, remember Hillards, it used to be our favorite shop when we lived at Lane Top, in it's day, easily as good as Morrisons for selection and value. Shame it closed, a lot of people missed it untill other stores opened. It was a lot better than Sommerfields at Firth Park.

The Somerfield in Firth Park is rubbish. I'd prefer it if they rebranded it as Kwik Save and cut the price of everything.

There's really no justification for charging the prices they do :mad:

I remember the Fine Fare supermarket on Margetson Shops just off Wordsworth Ave. The staff were always happy to see you and get whatever you wanted. The same can be said for the grocers, Deakins and the chemist, Lomas was brill. When they were building the Catholic church across the road and it was still at the foundation stage, my friends and I used to play there. I once managed to sit on a bee and it stung me on the back of my thigh. We went straight across the road (it was a Sunday) and knocked on his door. Mr Lomas came down from his flat above the shop and put some cream and a plaster on for me. It's very rare you get such service now although I'm told there are still some shopkeepers/workers who are very friendly and helpful.

Hillards has long gone but the building is still there after being a presto and kwik save its now called job lot and sells a lot of short dated stuff in what was the old hardware dept of hillards downstairs..........anyone remember shoppers paradise at the Chaucer school end of buchanan road it was a bit like Netto at the time.......

My dad used to be a trolly lad there when he was bout 17 he always tells me how hard it was pushin trolleys up that hill.

i also worked in hillards before it changed to tesco?

i worked in 1974(nov) and left may 1980 to have my eldest daughter.

i have seen a few people that worked there i would know by sight and have recently heard anne fitzmaurice reached a special birthday,have you got news,the shop in the non-food dept looks like it could do with more than the health inspector to sort it out.

Originally posted by rosiebear
i also worked in hillards before it changed to tesco?

i worked in 1974(nov) and left may 1980 to have my eldest daughter.

i have seen a few people that worked there i would know by sight and have recently heard anne fitzmaurice reached a special birthday,have you got news,the shop in the non-food dept looks like it could do with more than the health inspector to sort it out.

Then you must have served me at some point. Hillards was about the nearest 'supermarket' to where I lived at the bottom end of Sicey Avenue (Ecclesfield end).

Can anyone remember maid marion food stores?think there used to be quite a few of them around in the mid seventies.

remember fine fare at gleadless townend,specially remember the budget range they used to sell,came with a bright yellow label,my poor dog had to endure fine fare budget range for years:(

Other "local" shops I remember were

"Gowers and Burgins " on the John-o-Gaunt shops, Blackstock Road on Gleadless Valley. (there were at least a couple of other branches of G&B across Sheffield)

And there was Shentalls, with branches on John-o-Gaunt shops, and The Pavement, Park Hill Flats (which was one of the local chains that fine fare took over, before fine fare shut down. well, no they didn't exactly get "shut down"; frank dee and his supermarket chain took them over (also known as "frank dee" and "Challenge", and IIRC "Mac Markets" and I have forgotten the other names before they all became Somerfield)

I also remember Liptons' Super market, at Halifax Road, Wadsley Bridge area

PT

Originally posted by panda79
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anyone remember the local shops from years ago ... u no the cheap stuff bit like happy shopper stuff i can still remember the my mum range of products and in the 70s there was a cheap brand called bob ...and while im talkin about the 70s anyone remember hillards at lane top:)

BOB was the collective name of shops, who to compete with the emerging supermarkets, came up with the name from Bulk organised Buying.

The shop near the post-office on London Road, Highfields now called "Beers and Steers" used to be a "BOB" shop.

The little wooden hut of a shop that stands alone, in the grounds of the Northern General hospital, as you come in from the Herries Road entrance (after the flower shops etc) is still referred to as the "BOB-shop". (it think it sells things under the "Today's" brand, these days)

PT

wen i was about 9 i rember my mum takin me to eucomarket in eccelsfield think its a co op now
oh those where the days:thumbsup:


Yes you are right about Eucomarket. Mr and Mrs John Braybrook held the franchise and the store was opened my the DJ Alan Freeman. As you say it is now the Co-op. I remember the current Miss India at the time, opening Hillards next to the Essoldo at Lane Top.

Other "local" shops I remember were

"Gowers and Burgins " on the John-o-Gaunt shops, Blackstock Road on Gleadless Valley. (there were at least a couple of other branches of G&B across Sheffield)

And there was Shentalls, with branches on John-o-Gaunt shops, and The Pavement, Park Hill Flats (which was one of the local chains that fine fare took over, before fine fare shut down. well, no they didn't exactly get "shut down"; frank dee and his supermarket chain took them over (also known as "frank dee" and "Challenge", and IIRC "Mac Markets" and I have forgotten the other names before they all became Somerfield)

I also remember Liptons' Super market, at Halifax Road, Wadsley Bridge area

PT
There was a Gower and Burgon's shop on the corner of The Common and Mill Road, Ecclesfield. It had previously been The Globe Tea Company. In the early days it was owned by Mr and Mrs Briggs. Now it is Lloyd's Chemist.

A couple of others

Meadow, and I am not sure of this one but it rings a bell, Maypole?

what about HOBSON,S CHOICE they were a few shops around sheffield anyone remember

I remember the Willis supermarkets on Crookes (became a Kwik Save, then a Co-op when the old Co-op moved), and there was one at White Lane which became a Kwik Save and is now a Somerfield. The greatest range of cheap lagers ever in that Willis - Scandia :love: ! 6 levels of strength - 3.4% up to 9.5% - perfect for the drunkard on a budget ...... :hihi:

I also remember VG, Mace Foodstores, and Londis shops .......

Oh, and of course Star Discount at Townend ....... possibly the filthiest shop ever ........

Hillards! Ha, all the mods used to congregate in the carpark of an evening! What a laugh.

Somerfield/Kwiksave whatever its called this week in firthpark used to be a fine fare aswell.